Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering

Two engineering faculty members were recognized for their achievements in and out of the classroom by Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos at the Spring Faculty Assembly March 29, 2012. Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos, Janos Sztipanovits and David Weintraub at Faculty Spring Assembly in Langford Auditorium (Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) Janos Sztipanovits,… Read More

Using Molecular Simulation to Understand Wetting of Chemically and Geometrically Heterogeneous Surfaces March 19th, 2012, SC 5326 3:00 p.m. Reception at 2:45 p.m. Jeffrey R. Errington Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University at Buffalo The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY Fluids routinely interact… Read More

Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering graduate program improved two positions to No. 35 in annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report. The 2013 graduate program rankings were released today. The School, which tied with the University of Colorado-Boulder and the University of Florida, ranks ahead of Virginia and Washington University… Read More

Miles Barr Miles C. Barr received the prestigious $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize March 8, 2012, for his innovative solar technologies and creativity. Barr received his Ph.D. from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2012 and a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering Practice… Read More

Amanda M. B. Furtado’s PhD dissertation defense will be on March 15, 2012 at 1:00pm in Olin Hall 135.   NOVEL NANOPOROUS COMPOSITE MATERIALS FOR LIGHT GAS ADSORPTION March 15th, 2012, Olin Hall 135 at 1:00pm Amanda M. B. Furtado Dissertation under the direction of Professor M. Douglas LeVan This… Read More

Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials for Adsorption Applications February 20th, 2012, SC 5326 3:00 p.m. Krista Walton Assistant Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are inorganic-organic hybrids that represent a new direction in porous materials research. The rich field of coordination chemistry… Read More

Insight into the Kinetics of Oligomer Formation During Amyloidosis February 6th, 2012, SC 5326 Georges Belfort Howard P Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA Although the critical causative proteins for more than 20 amyloid diseases have… Read More

  Peter T. Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, and the Principal Scientist of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been appointed to the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for the Engineering Directorate and to the Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure. The… Read More

  Peter Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering in the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Vanderbilt University, will receive the 2012 Yeram S. Touloukian Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The award, consisting of a bronze medal, certificate and travel grant, is… Read More

Sandra J. Rosenthal Sandra J. Rosenthal, director of the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is one of 14 members of Vanderbilt University’s faculty to be elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year. This is… Read More